We all remember how the Lewis and Clark expedition used beads to basically trade their way across North America, before arriving on the north Oregon cost to spend the winter of 1805-06. Well, the ...

Legend has it that, if a mountain man lost his horse, he always carried a chevron bead, so he could trade the bead for another horse.

What Lewis and Clark and their party finally found–although they didn’t know it at the time–was not a path between the oceans but a story whose power to challenge and absorb would bridge the ...